Dutch Oven Pancakes

We're in the final chapter of the Dutch Oven Cookbook, and this one is filled with ideas for cooking during an emergency. The first "recipe" used pancake mix and dry milk powder to make pancakes and suggested serving them with butter and jam and "your choice of hot drink" so we picked hot cocoa, also on the list of suggested emergency foods.

Pancakes: Combine two cups of pancake mix (a type that calls for milk and eggs - which wasn't easy to find!), one cup of reconstituted milk (three tablespoons dry milk powder and one cup water), and two eggs. Heat a Dutch oven and pour a couple of tablespoons of oil in the bottom. Ladle 1/4 cup of pancake batter into the pan, flip when bubbles pop and cook the other side until done. Serve hot with butter and jam or syrup, with a side of bacon or sausage and your favorite hot drink.

We didn't cook up all the batter that evening, so had pancakes again for breakfast. Surprisingly, the batter was still thick. They turned out quite nicely cooking them on our griddle, and we served them with syrup this meal.